The original Godzilla emerged from the Pacific Ocean in 1954 to level Tokyo — and has become one of the longest-running movie franchises of all time. In his nearly 60 years, the radioactively stirred lizard has battled everything, from the world’s greatest armies to King Kong and giant moths. But what makes the Godzilla series so enduring isn’t its comical premise or even its mindless destruction, but rather the sustaining idea that when humanity is faced with seemingly impossible odds, it will persevere — even over giant destructive movie monsters.

Just wanna make one thing perfectly clear, Zilla '98 (as I like to call it), AKA TriStar's unfaithful screw up adaptation, doesn't count as a Godzilla movie, it has nothing to do with Godzilla, only works as a stand-alone kaiju film, the fact that the monster in the movie has been officially, and legally, renamed "Zilla" makes it pretty clear it's not a Godzilla movie nor the Godzilla character, and the fact that the unfaithful adaptation's spot on the franchise has been officially replaced by Legendary's FAITHFUL adaptation, and the movie is not even out yet.